St. Francis would be proud. Get your favorite malamute in good with a higher power during the Eighth Annual Blessing of Animals on Saturday at Mission San Luis.

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With apologies to global warming, climate change and the second Ice Age, here's how the weather works in Tallahassee.

For 300 days a year, it's so hot and muggy that you feel like you're trying to breath through a wet gym sock inside a sweat lodge. We're talking South Vietnam on the Ochlockonee River.

Then there are the 15 or 20 days in December or January when it gets so sinisterly cold that you have to drive to the state line and look at the sign that screams, "Welcome to Florida in the Name of Rick Scott," just to remind yourself that you really do live in the Sunshine State. Our wet climate embraces ...